A Week in Review–September 14-20!
Another busy week in London!
Monday was a busy, busy day this week! We started the day off on Monday with a walking tour / lecture about the Slave Trade in the United Kingdom for their Transnational Studies class. The students arrived at the Embankment Tube station to meet a Blue Badge Guide (who is also an FIE professor) who spoke to us about the topic and guided us through to area. He brought us into the National Portrait Gallery where we viewed paintings such as the “Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840” by Benjamin Robert Haydon that depicted slavery and the movement toward abolition. As the UK outlawed the Slave Trade in 1807, the Slave Trade still continued to import slaves around the world. British ship captains are said to have ordered slaves be thrown off the side of the boat if they were in jeopardy of being caught by the Royal Navy in violating the Slave Trade Act.
Later in the day, the students were given a walking tour of Brick Lane, a long street in an area of London also known as Banglatown due to the high Bangladeshi population in the area. As this is a famous area for the best Indian curry in London (some argue the world), the students dined on Indian food for lunch in this area.
Later in evening the students were given the opportunity to meet the other students and faculty at the FIE Welcome Reception! Visiting universities include: Marist College, Temple University, Loyala Marymount University, and Santa Clara University.
Our Family Meal this week took place at an Italian Restaurant in South Kensington: Rocca. http://www.roccarestaurants.com/about.htm Please see the picture below!
Finally on Thursday, NUin sponsored a trip to the London Eye a ferris-wheel like structure on the SouthBank of the Thames River. Standing at over 400 feet, the students were able to see picturesque views of London! Please see a picture below of their trip.
Until next time….have a great week!
